Far Eastern Curlew is an endangered migratory shorebird endemic to the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Their main wintering ground is in Australia, but globally significant numbers of Far Eastern Curlew can be found utilising Bako Buntal Bay, Sarawak, Malaysia as a staging and wintering site. Bako Buntal Bay is the first and only flyway network site in Malaysia under the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership and is currently in the process of being gazetted as a protected area.

Working together with the local government, this project aims to describe the northward and southward migration patterns of threatened shorebird species wintering in Sarawak, primarily Far Eastern Curlew and to determine their habitat use in Sarawak. Besides that, this project also aims to assess whether their habitat use overlaps with the boundary of planned protected area to guide conservation management planning. The use of satellite tracking in this project will be the pioneer for shorebird research in Borneo where these satellite trackers will be able to provide movement and habitat use data which are important in determining whether the proposed protected area will cover all key areas used by species like Far Eastern Curlew. This is important to ensure that the proposed protected area is functional and able to protect all or nearly all key habitats used by shorebirds wintering and staging in Sarawak.